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Alice Gerrard, Kay Justice, Paul Brown, Terri McMurray + De Temps Antan
The Blue Ridge Music Center presents an evening of traditional Blue Ridge Mountain Old-Time and folk featuring 2014 Grammy Nominee for Best Traditional Folk Album, Alice Gerrard plus Kay Justice, Paul Brown and Terri McMurray. With special guests De Temps Antan, a Quebecois traditional folk music super-group featuring Andre Brunet, Eric Beaudry, and Pierre Luc-Dupris.
Alice Gerrard -
Simply put, Alice Gerrard is a talent of legendary status. In a career spanning some 50 years, she has known, learned from, and performed with many of the old-time and bluegrass greats and has in turn earned worldwide respect for her own important contributions to the music. Alice is particularly known for her groundbreaking collaboration with Appalachian singer Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and '70s. The duo produced four classic LPs (recently reissued by Rounder on CD) and influenced scores of young women singers even The Judds acknowledge Hazel and Alice as an important early inspiration.
Alice's four solo albums, Pieces of My Heart, and Calling Me Home, and Bittersweet (produced by Laurie Lewis), were released to critical acclaim in Billboard, Bluegrass Unlimited, New Country, and other publications. These superb recordings showcase Alice's many talents: her compelling, eclectic songwriting; her powerful, hard-edged vocals; and her instrumental mastery on rhythm guitar, banjo, and old-time fiddle. Her most recent album, Follow the Music (produced by Mike Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger) is nominated for a 2014 Grammy.
http://www.alicegerrard.com/
Paul Brown -
Paul Brown learned his first songs and tunes as a kid from his mother, who picked them up from older African-American musicians in piedmont Virginia in the 1920s. He was hooked, and spent years collecting and documenting traditional music in southwest Virginia and in the stunningly rich Round Peak region around Mount Airy, North Carolina.
http://www.brownpaul.net
As a performer, a record producer, and a radio hostformerly of Mount Airy's famous hometown station, WPAQ, and ultimately reaching a national audience as a newscaster and reporter for National Public RadioPaul Brown has introduced millions to the special world of Appalachian music, and helped to ensure its preservation and vitality for future generations. Paul learned directly from some of the last fiddle, banjo, and guitar players to emerge before the age of radio and recordings, including Tommy Jarrell, Fields Ward, Robert Sykes, Luther Davis, Verlen Clifton, and Paul Sutphin. Paul has recorded with many of his friends including Bruce Molsky, Mike Seeger, and Tara Nevins.
He produced the award-winning Breaking Up Christmas: A Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday radio documentary for NPR and hosted the popular Across the Blue Ridge program on WFDD Public Radio in Winston-Salem. His most recent recordings, Red Clay Country and The Mostly Mountain Boys (with Terri McMurray and John Schwab) showcase Paul's banjo playing, fiddling, and singing, and have received rave reviews.
Terri McMurray -
Terri McMurray started banjo uke and banjo when she was pint-sized. She co-founded the Old Hollow String Band with Riley Baugus and Kirk Sutphin, and dug deep into clawhammer banjo with Tommy Jarrell in North Carolina. Her banjo uke playing lifts a tune off the ground like no one else's.
Kay Justice -
West Virginia's Kay Justice is a noted singer and guitarist who is known for her work in the mid to late 90s with Ginny Hawker.
De Temps Antan -
The Québécois folk music trio De Temps Antan, using fiddle, accordion, harmonica, guitar, and bouzouki, blends boundless energy with the unmistakable joie de vivre found in traditional French-Canadian music. Their sound, anchored by the "tac-tic-a tac" of les pieds (a form of seated clogging found only in French Canada), explores time-honored melodies from Quebec's musical past informed as much by their world travels as by their fieldwork and family ties. De Temps Antan has performed at numerous important folk festivals, such as Winnipeg Folk Festival, Tønder Festival (Denmark), Sani Festival (Greece), and Festival International of Louisiana.
http://detempsantan.qc.ca/en
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LocationThe Blue Ridge Music Center (View)
700 Foothills Road (Mile Marker 213 - Blue Ridge Parkway)
Galax, VA 24333
United States
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